[Scribus] The "Great Breakage" is over ???

[Wesley Allen]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>Wesley Allen wrote:
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>>OK, I know it's been asked, but what's the easierst way to run cvs and
>>1.3.1 at the same time?
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>>If I get anoncvs and compile I'll still have 1.3.1 untouched, right?
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>If, and only if, you install them to different prefixes, then yes. If 
>you used an RPM for 1.3.1 that'll be fine, since it will have gone into 
>/usr . Otherwise, I strongly suggest setting an explicit --prefix=  when 
>calling configure.
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VERY good idea.

>As I do rather a lot of Scribus builds, I personally favour 
>--prefix=$HOME/scribus/scribus-VERSION . Installing to a tree under my 
>home directory means that there's no need to run anything as root - 
>soemthing that's very reassuring when fiddling with the build system code.
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Thanks again, keeping it in $HOME is a nice idea.

>I don't usually bother incrementing VERSION except when official 
>releases happen, but if you're using CVS for production you might want 
>to increment it occasionally (scribus-1.3.2cvs-2, scribus-1.3.2vs-3, and 
>so on) to make sure you don't clobber a known working build. You must 
>"make clean" after changing the prefix argument to configure.
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>This is especially true as things get lively down the track, like 
>Andreas mentioned.
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Thanks Craig, this is what I'll do.

Wes

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